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Old Tue Jul 01, 2014, 02:23am
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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Originally Posted by Adam View Post
I think it's an unfortunate result of the new rules that a defender may inadvertently benefit. If I think the player did it on purpose to prevent a layup, I'd go with the intentional, but I'd have to be about 99% certain of his intent. I don't think the rules committee wanted us to turn contact that was previously incidental (zero impact on the opponent) into an intentional foul.

I could be wrong, though.
Agree.
They will only benefit 5 times. If these fouls are called, they will largely stop happening.
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